The Challenge of a Farmhouse Son-in-Law
Chapter 624 - 635: Chatting on the Road

Chapter 624: Chapter 635: Chatting on the Road

"Indeed, she has no children of her own, and regards His Majesty as if he were her own son, having suffered so much for him,"

True enough.

Gu Youyou nodded.

"Then what does my uncle mean by agreeing to let me go?"

Lin Qianqing giggled, "Your uncle, my father, means that you should go to the palace to see the world and let the ladies who will enter the palace tomorrow see you too. Who knows, they might find a good match for you."

Gu Youyou was taken aback, almost chopping to death the herbs she had planted, thinking to herself: Lin Qianqing is wrong. It’s one thing for others, but my uncle knows about my situation with Jin Zijin. Why would he arrange for me to look for a suitable match?

These people... they love to do things halfway and tell things by halves.

She guessed that they probably wanted her to enter the palace to understand the current situation.

Gu Youyou was smart and naturally knew that the subtle relationships between the women of the inner courtyards best reflected the situation of the former court.

She understood their intentions.

...

Two days later, accompanying her aunt into the palace, Gu Youyou and her cousin Lin Qianqing sat in one carriage, while her aunt took another. Throughout the journey, Lin Qianqing kept pulling back a sliver of the carriage curtain, pointing and commenting on the other carriages on the road.

"Look, that is Madam Zhang’s carriage. They have no legitimate daughters, and last year she brought a concubine-born daughter to the palace. That girl was so flustered during her first palace visit she caused accidents again and again, bringing shame to her. Who knows if she will bring her again this year."

As she saw another carriage curtain lift, revealing a stunning face, she exclaimed excitedly: "Oh, that’s Madam Lu! A few years ago, she frightened a princess in the palace, and the Empress Dowager banned her from entering. Yet, she’s come this year.

She would not dare to come without an invitation directly from the Empress herself. Ah, cousin, why do you think the Empress invited Madam Lu?"

There’s a multitude of ladies in Beijing, and Gu Youyou herself has more than enough affairs to attend to, let alone remember a Madam Lu among the many with the same surname?

She closed the Ancient Medical Manuscript she was holding and asked idly, "Which Madam Lu?"

"That one, the most famous one in Beijing, who you saw on the day the Dragon King and Dragon Mother were worshiped, the one you remarked had an astonishing physique and was blessed with unique features."

"Oh, her!" Gu Youyou perked up.

She was a head taller than the average man, at least six-foot-three, with a voice like a drake and a big frame, demoted to a concubine by her husband twice.

Gu Youyou squeezed her head to the edge of the window and caught only a glimpse before Madame Lu put down the curtain.

Her appearance could indeed frighten a child.

As for why the Empress would invite Madam Lu... Gu Youyou pondered for a moment and thought: Isn’t it obvious? With a person like Madam Lu, unless there were substantial benefits, which lady of the house would want to deal with her?

Frighteningly ugly and vulgar.

The Empress invited her because she has her sights on General Lu and his son.

But she couldn’t say this to Lin Qianqing.

Gu Youyou smiled and said, "After all, she is Madam Lu. If she invited all the ladies of lower rank than General Lu and left her out, it wouldn’t be appropriate. Maybe the Empress wants to be seen as a generous ruler."

Lin Qianqing smiled, "The Empress is truly wise and righteous and is extremely kind to us younger ones. It’s just that the rules in the Imperial Palace are so complicated, which is why I’ve never wanted to go."

The Empress was her aunt’s cousin, the legitimate eldest daughter of the Ducal Residence’s senior branch. Should Lin Qianqing refer to her as Aunt by marriage?

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